This past Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, an explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip killed hundreds of people. Estimates put the death toll between 100-300. It has been three weeks since the Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas sent shock waves through the world when it launched the largest attack
On November 7th, trial proceedings in Nairobi began for a Kenyan police unit accused of assassinating Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif. The case was brought by the journalist’s widowed wife Javeria Siddique and two unions, the Kenya Union of Journalists and the Kenya Correspondents. Arshad Sharif died just over a year
Thai troops recently seized nearly 225kg of crystal methamphetamine from drug smugglers trafficking the drug over the border and into the country from Myanmar. This drug bust is just one example of the Thai government’s increased efforts to crack down on the booming drug trade in the notorious “Golden Triangle”
On September 11th, Prime Ministers Kausea Natano of Tuvalu and Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda presented opening statements at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Germany. The two leaders serve as co-chairs for the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law
The Chinese National Salt Industry Group recently issued a statement that salt supply was stable, discouraging over-buying as major e-commerce retailers and grocery stores are selling out of the product. The panic-spike in salt demand is a result of Japan’s officially commencement of a 30-year long process to discharge treated
This past Monday, five United States nationals returned home to their families after being held for years in Iranian prisons. In exchange for the Americans’ freedom, the U.S. agreed to release five Iranians from American prisons and to unfreeze nearly $6 billion dollars’ worth of Iranian assets for humanitarian uses.
